AMUSEMENTS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 April 1918, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

HOUSE. To-night the splendid Yitagraph Blue Ribbon feature “The Magnificent Meddler,” will be screened for the last time. “Oliver Thomas,’ ’the famous Midnight Follies artist, better known as “The Harrison Fisher Girl,” will be - starred by Pollards Pictures on to_morrow (Wednesday) evening in her second Triangle feature. This big Triangle feature, “An Even Break,” is a gigant.c musical comedy on canvass, and although it is a picture the Jazy Bands, the ballets and the chorus are real productions of musical comedy and in one scene “Oliver Thomas leads a ballet of one hundred dreams of beauty, who are seen under multi-coloured lighting effects. The cafe scenes are miracles of splendour and an .exact reproduction of Minot’s Cafe, the largest pleasure palace of Broadway ..pictures the cafe in which the most famous of Ameri. can music hall beauties is the star; “An Even Break” is not all frivolity, for many emotional scenes of great pathos are woven into the story, and sensation also splays a big part with a collision 'between a racing motor car and a train which is an alarming piece of reality. “An Even Break” >s one of the Triangle’s best and tells a brilliant story of the lure of the stage “.Carriage Call 101,” the fifth episode of the Vita graph’s serial “The Secret Kingdom,” the supporting picture to the big star feature is a particularly interesting one. and pictures the further adventures of Philin and the Princess Julia at the great ball given in honour of the Princess. TOWN HALL. A fine five-reel Bine Bird photoplay and ah all new supporting programme will be screened at the Peerless Pictures tonight. The story in brief of “The Greater Law” is as follows: —Myrtle Gonzalez, George Gretchen Lederer and Lawrence Peyton led the company through snow-deep operating in the vicinity of Truckee, Cal,, with peaks of the Sierras, clothed in frost and flecked with scattering fir trees and evergreens. The camera has caught some wondronsly beautiful backings to a series of exciting episodes, reflecting the strenuous life in an Alaskan mining camp. There are but few interiors and these are used to represent sensational events that transpire in a eombination dance-hall, saloon and hotel at a time when the Klondyke seethed with the highest pitch of excitement \n the first days of the rush for gold. Otherwise the action is out of doors, amid snow and ice, calculated to be a psychological in cooling effects on midsummer audiences. It is doubtful if a greater personal success has ever been registered in a photoplay than that which Miss Mary Miles Minter achieved in the emotional drama “Faith,” which will he produced at the Peerless Pictures to-morrow (Wednesday) evening. The story of “Faith” is an absorbing ene, and keeps the audience fascinated from beginning to end. The' plot turns on the abduction of an infant. She is placed in an orphanage, and when able to earn her owriih’ving is hired as a servant to a very wealthy family. A rob. bery takes place, and she is accused of the theft. At the last moment a young lawyer, Mark Strong, takes up her case, resulting in one of the strongest dramatic sensations that has ever been seen. The closing scenes in the court are very pathetic. It is in this scene that Miss Minter achieves her greatest tri«mph. The production is a lavish one, some of the- scenes in millionaire’s homes being ma.enificent. Ow’n? to this great picture being hooked elsewhere it can be shown on Wednesday onlv. “The Sealed Valiev,” a M°tro-w''ndcrplay, will be presented on Thursday.